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A dictionary of the English language : with supplement, containing over 12,500 new words and antries, and a vocabulary of synonyms of words in general use : and an appendix, which embodies a pronouncing dictionary of biography, embracing the names of newarly then thousand persons of all ages and countries : pronouncing vocabularies of modern Christian names and Latin proper names, and scripture proper names, together with various other useful tables
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2358
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV976.18.1
- Call Number
- 423 WOR
- Edition
- New ed.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Co.
- Publication Date
- 1897
- c1886
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- Notes
- Author's full name and dates: Worchester, Joseph Emerson, 1784-1865
Biography Conference for Writers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56270
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1981
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1981
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Arts Council subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 39698
- Accession Number
- BHS1998-06
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Biography- HEW - Bernie Simpson
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3644
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1933-1995
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including notes on sources of information, correspondence, and financial reference material. Bernie Simpson was an NDP MLA in Vancouver-Fraserview (1990-1995) and a friend of Jessie Winch's.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including notes on sources of information, correspondence, and financial reference material. Bernie Simpson was an NDP MLA in Vancouver-Fraserview (1990-1995) and a friend of Jessie Winch's.
- Names
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.1
- Date
- 1933-1995
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, geography, biography, and natural history
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1582
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3894.1
- Call Number
- 220.3 SMI
- Contributor
- Smith, William, 1813-1893
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- American Book Exchange
- Publication Date
- 1880
- Physical Description
- 467 p. ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- Back endpaper: "$1.00" [written in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Bible
- Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry
- Notes
- edited by William Smith, LL.D
The family cyclopaedia of useful knowledge : a complete library of useful information for the masses, embraced in the subjects of history, biography, natural history, travels, manners and customs, manufactures, vegetation, invention and discovery, mining, the sea, familiar science, the law, statistics, etc., etc.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5054
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV007.21.9
- Call Number
- 030 FAM
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- John S. Dorn Publisher
- Publication Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- xii, 14-544 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Books
- Notes
- "with two hundred and seventy-three illustrations" --t.p.
Harold Winch biography
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3646
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1934], 1982-1993
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including sympathy cards and correspondence from Winch's death, as well as newspaper clippings about Winch and his political career.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including sympathy cards and correspondence from Winch's death, as well as newspaper clippings about Winch and his political career.
- Names
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.3
- Date
- [1934], 1982-1993
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Information for Harold Winch biography
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3647
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1935-2003
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records + 1 photograph : col.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including newspaper clippings, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) publicity material, and a photograph of the dedication of MacInnis Park in Vancouver, including Glen Clark, MLA.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records + 1 photograph : col.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including newspaper clippings, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) publicity material, and a photograph of the dedication of MacInnis Park in Vancouver, including Glen Clark, MLA.
- Subjects
- Government - Provincial Government
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.4
- Date
- 1935-2003
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
New biography - Boag Foundation
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3645
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1933, 1993-2002
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including sympathy cards, correspondence, and memorials from Winch's death, as well as correspondence relating to Ron and Florence Riley's remembrances of Winch.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records relating to the development of a biography of Harold Winch, including sympathy cards, correspondence, and memorials from Winch's death, as well as correspondence relating to Ron and Florence Riley's remembrances of Winch.
- Names
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.2
- Date
- 1933, 1993-2002
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Shari Meakin Bursary and Biography
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56371
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1988
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1988
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Arts Council subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 39798
- Accession Number
- BHS1998-06
- Media Type
- Textual Record
The autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, 1722-1805
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3106
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.165.73
- Call Number
- 922.5 CAR
- Edition
- New ed.
- Contributor
- Burton, John Hill, 1809-1881
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- T. N. Foulis
- Publication Date
- 1910
- Printer
- Morrison & Gibb Limited
- Physical Description
- xix, 615 p., [32] leaves of plates : ports. ; 22 cm
- Inscription
- "W 60" [phrase crossed out and written in black in at top of front pastedown] Newspaper clipping of "The other Thomas Carlyle" glued to front paste down. Brief biography of Thomas Carlyle (1803-1855) a Scottish lawyer not to be confused with the author Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Biography
- Notes
- "Edited by John Hill Burton"--title page
- "New edition, with many addtional notes & thirty-two portraits of eminent men of the time in photogravure"--title page.
Bill McNeil presents Voice of the pioneer
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1105
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- McNeil, Bill, 1924-
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Call Number
- 971.06 MCN
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0385251955
- 9780385251952
- Call Number
- 971.06 MCN
- Author
- McNeil, Bill, 1924-
- Contributor
- Bagnell, Kenneth, 1934-
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- xii, 255 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Voice of the Pioneer (Radio program)
- Interviews
- Canada--History--20th century
- Canada
- Biography
British Columbia from the earliest times to the present, volume 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary98
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.29.22
- Call Number
- 971.1 SCH v. I
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- The S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- xlvi, 688 p. : ill. : 27 cm.
- Inscription
- "S-10 d" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink on pre title page] "S-12 d" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink on pre title page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- British Columbia--History
- British Columbia
- British Columbia--Bibliography
- Biography
- Notes
- "Volume I" -- title page
- Includes index.
- Includes list of authorities.
- Author's full name: E. O. S. Scholefield (Ethelbert Olaf Stuart), 1875-1919
British Columbia from the earliest times to the present, volume 2
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary97
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.29.21
- Call Number
- 971.1 HOW v.2
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- The S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- xiv,, 727 p. : ill. : 27 cm.
- Inscription
- "S-10 c" [Handwritten and crossed out in blue ink on pre title page] "S-12 c" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink on pre title page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- British Columbia--History
- British Columbia
- British Columbia--Bibliography
- Biography
- Notes
- "Volume II" -- title page
- Includes index.
- Other three volumes by: E. O. S. Scholefield (Ethelbert Olaf Stuart), 1875-1919
- Author's full name and dates: Howay, F. W. (Frederic William), 1867-1943
British Columbia from the earliest times to the present, volume 3
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary95
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.29.19
- Call Number
- 971.1 SCH v.3
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- The S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 1161 p. : ill. : 27 cm.
- Inscription
- "S-10 a" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink] "S-12a" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink
- Library Subject (LOC)
- British Columbia--History
- British Columbia
- British Columbia--Bibliography
- Biography
- Notes
- "Volume III" -- title page.
- "Biographical" -- title page.
- Includes index.
- Authors' full name and dates: Scholefield, E. O. S. (Ethelbert Olaf Stuart), 1875-1919.
British Columbia from the earliest times to the present, volume 4
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary96
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.29.20
- Call Number
- 971.1 SCH v.4
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- The S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 1429 p. : ill. : 27 cm.
- Inscription
- "S-10 b" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink on pre title page] "S-12 b" [Handwritten and crossed out in black ink on pre title page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- British Columbia--History
- British Columbia
- British Columbia--Bibliography
- Biography
- Notes
- "Volume IV" -- title page
- "Biographical" -- title page
- Includes index
- Author's full name: E. O. S. Scholefield (Ethelbert Olaf Stuart), 1875-1919
British Columbia : the pioneer years
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1451
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0889830150
- 0889830134
- Call Number
- 971.1 PAT
- Place of Publication
- Langley, B.C.
- Publisher
- Stagecoach Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- c1980
- Physical Description
- 128 p. : ill., ports.
- Inscription
- "Bev Sandercock / TR", written in pencil on title page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
The Canadian annual review of public affairs
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3710
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV001.1.200
- Call Number
- 971.005 HOP
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- The Annual Review Publishing Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date
- c1913
- Printer
- William Briggs
- Physical Description
- 699 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- "Rec' by mail / 16 July '13" -- Inside back cover.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada
- Canada--Politics and government
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Includes a "Special Supplement Containing Important Public Addresses of the year and Historical Data Regarding Canadian Interests and Institutions."
Cop in the closet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3855
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Fossum, Jack, 1905-
- Publication Date
- c1981
- Call Number
- 971.2 FOS
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV004.23.60
- ISBN
- 0888390815
- Call Number
- 971.2 FOS
- Author
- Fossum, Jack, 1905-
- Place of Publication
- North Vancouver, B.C.
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers
- Publication Date
- c1981
- Physical Description
- 169 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- Bookplate on front pastedown reads "Property of Ted Brue" "from daughter Anita + Don" [handwritten in blue ink] "Birthday Greetings" "Oct. 21, 1982" [handwritten in black ink on front end paper]
C.W. Parker : the carnival king
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1080
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Goldsack, Bob
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Call Number
- 791.06 GOL Copy 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 791.06 GOL Copy 1
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Author
- Goldsack, Bob
- Place of Publication
- Leavenworth, KS
- Publisher
- C. W. Parker Carousel Museum
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- 75 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Carnival owners--Kansas
- Carnivals--Kansas--History
- Biography
- Notes
- Addendum added for the 2nd edition. plus website addresses
The dusty road from Perth
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6892
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Morton, James, 1922-
- Publication Date
- c1981
- Call Number
- 929.2 MOR
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV017.17.3
- ISBN
- 0888943210
- Call Number
- 929.2 MOR
- Author
- Morton, James, 1922-
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Publication Date
- c1981
- Physical Description
- 179 p. ; 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Scottish Canadians
- Biography